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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Settled after the invention of the car? The population increased but most of the states and major cities were in place.
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True but what really exploded the cities and urban centers was the National Defense Act of 1954 which funded the construction of the freeway system as a means to rapidly evacuate the city centers in the event of a nuclear attack.
Those freeways unintentionally led to the creation and growth of suburbia and the massive sprawl we see today.